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Some dilemmas facing Neil ahead of this one. Stoke only have a point so far but have dangerous players and reportedly played very well yesterday, using a diamond in midfield.

Neil will have to decide first and foremost who to replace Moult with in the starting XI.

Wide areas also must be a concern. Bodin and Maguire worked well at home to Wigan, and we do need more 'technicians' on the pitch at home but yesterday the Swansea wide players seemed to have free rein to charge down our flanks. Makes you wonder if that would've happened with the likes of Potts and Barkhuizen on the pitch.

Hopefully Hughes is fit. If he travelled yesterday then surely he can't be too far off fitness.

I would list a potential line-up but it's hard to even guess.
 
Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Gally

Bodin
Browne
Barkhuizen

Maguire


Probably slightly harsh to drop Johnson, but I feel against a diamond that Browne will key to pressing their deepest midfielder. Barkhuizen in to exploit the space that they will leave wide.
 
kingpne said:
Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Johnson

Bodin
Browne
Barkhuizen

Maguire
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Kenmare_White said:
Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Gally

Bodin
Browne
Barkhuizen

Maguire


Probably slightly harsh to drop Johnson, but I feel against a diamond that Browne will key to pressing their deepest midfielder. Barkhuizen in to exploit the space that they will leave wide.
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I know it is all about opinions, but Maguire on his own up front does not work and makes it easy for athletic centre backs that most teams at this level have, sorry guys in my opinion we would be playing straight in to their hands.
 
Wisemen say said:
I know it is all about opinions, but Maguire on his own up front does not work and makes it easy for athletic centre backs that most teams at this level have, sorry guys in my opinion we would be playing straight in to their hands.
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I agree to an extent. I have said that if I was a centre half, I'd love marking Maguire. It would be so easy.

But Stockley up front didn't work very well against Stoke last season, he got hooked off early in the second half.
 
kingpne said:
I agree to an extent. I have said that if I was a centre half, I'd love marking Maguire. It would be so easy.

But Stockley up front didn't work very well against Stoke last season, he got hooked off early in the second half.
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As a centre half, playing against Maguire as lone striker as most teams have shown gives them little problems, Stockley also has limitations and his lack of pace especially at this level is also an issue.
It won't happen because AN does not advocate it or have a system to use two up front, but with a present issues, I would like to see Stockley and Maguire as a front two, but it just won't happen.
 
kingpne said:
I agree to an extent. I have said that if I was a centre half, I'd love marking Maguire. It would be so easy.

But Stockley up front didn't work very well against Stoke last season, he got hooked off early in the second half.
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I'm sure if Maguire was give the right sort of service even a centre half as good as you would struggle King ?
 
kingpne said:
Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Johnson

Bodin
Browne
Barkhuizen

Maguire
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Think your selection highlights an issue AN faces. Who, out of available personnel, does he play up front. I don’t think Maguire is a CF, but the other option is Stockley, who AN doesn’t seem to think in his system is a CF. Maguire Hobson choice? Whichever he chooses just hope we dont see the name Green in that position again. Square pegs.
A poor transfer window getting highlighted up top, as well as FB.
 
Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Johnson

Bodin
Browne
Maguire

Stockley

Biggest problem is that AN clearly wants his striker to be able to press from the front AND be a target to hold things up front at times, all our fit strikers can do only 1 of those 2 things. Whether Maguire, Stockley or Green plays up front we need to play in a way that suits them, playing how Neil wants us to with a striker unable to do half of the job required of them is pointless.
 
Can someone tell me what position Potts played in when we went through the unbeaten run with him in the side?
 
kingpne said:
I agree to an extent. I have said that if I was a centre half, I'd love marking Maguire. It would be so easy.

But Stockley up front didn't work very well against Stoke last season, he got hooked off early in the second half.
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With all due respect, I think you'd struggle, provided the personnel and formation enabled Maguire to switch from centre forward to drifting out left.

In my opinion, Maguire is well rounded and can score a variety of goals, which makes him unpredictable. Give me Stockley or Brett Angell any day: slow, predictable and simple. We need the right players around Maguire, I don't think it's him that's the problem. I personally think he'll link well with Nuge.
 
Would it not be reasonable for us to expect our very well paid manager to look at the players available to him and then to devise a system that suits them rather than shoe horn them into an unsuitable one? Surely that's what we pay him for.
 
What would Westley have done.....

Rudd

Fisher
Bauer
Davies
Rafferty

Pearson
Gally

Bodin
Johnson
Barkhuizen

Huntington
 
Rudd

Fisher
Storey
Bauer
Rafferty

Pearson
Gally (ledson or browne if gally can’t play 2 in 3 days)

Bodin
DJ
Barks

Maguire

Davies costs us too many goals from crosses and may need a spell on the bench to get him on it again. Really rate the lad but defend first in my view.
DJ either plays no.10 or not at all so certainly wouldn’t reposition him next to pearson if gally not fit enough to start.
 
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